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Busting Genre, in Style: Geoff Dyer on the Joy of Writing “Unpublishable” Books

Busting Genre, in Style: Geoff Dyer on the Joy of Writing “Unpublishable” Books

George Makari Talks to the Author of “The Last Days of Roger Federer: And Other Endings”

By George Makari | April 11, 2024

On the Time the Iron Sheik Threatened to Kill Me

On the Time the Iron Sheik Threatened to Kill Me

Brad Balukjian on Falling in Love with Professional Wrestling, Kayfabe, and Fact-Checking an Angry Childhood Hero

By Brad Balukjian | April 8, 2024

The Annotated Nightstand: What Tammy Nguyễn is Reading Now and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Tammy Nguyễn is Reading Now and Next

A Series by Diana Arterian

By Diana Arterian | September 15, 2022

Talking to Myself: How Dictation Software Helped Me Navigate Pandemic Pain

Talking to Myself: How Dictation Software Helped Me Navigate Pandemic Pain

From Leonardo da Vinci to Zadie Smith, Kim Beil on the Many Ways to Get Words on the Page

By Kim Beil | April 20, 2022

On Taking Writing Lessons from Quantum Physics

On Taking Writing Lessons from Quantum Physics

Hisham Bustani on a Single Story's Many Possible Worlds

By Hisham Bustani | February 4, 2022

Pareidolia: Of Patterns, Randomness, and Attention

Pareidolia: Of Patterns, Randomness, and Attention

Kate Colby on Connection, Meaning, and the Idea of Art

By Kate Colby | January 24, 2022

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Kimberly Grey on Chronic Pain and the Loss of the Mother

By Kimberly Grey | April 30, 2021

Applying Roland Barthes’s Concept of Writerly Text to Narrative Medicine

Applying Roland Barthes’s Concept of Writerly Text to Narrative Medicine

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By The Quarantine Tapes | March 16, 2021

Philosophies of Distance and Proximity: Who Are We When We're Alone?

Philosophies of Distance and Proximity: Who Are We When We're Alone?

Corina Stan on Orwell, Murdoch, Canetti and Experiments in Isolation

By Corina Stan | July 9, 2020

Roy Jacobsen on the Backbone of Nordic Literature: the Sagas of Iceland

Roy Jacobsen on the Backbone of Nordic Literature: the Sagas of Iceland

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By Roy Jacobsen | August 14, 2019

How Do We Judge Translations?

How Do We Judge Translations?

Kate Briggs Poses Some Tricky Questions

By Kate Briggs | April 19, 2018

Lost in Berlin, and in the Wordless Writing of Mirtha Dermisache

Lost in Berlin, and in the Wordless Writing of Mirtha Dermisache

J. Mae Barizo on the Space Between the Known and Unknown

By J. Mae Barizo | March 23, 2018

Ballast, Grounding, Subject Matter: On Writers and Their Mothers

Ballast, Grounding, Subject Matter: On Writers and Their Mothers

The Ambiguities and Uncertainties of Love Make us Who We Are

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